Amtrak 6 - with P42 #8 (last known footage?) and GrandLuxe Cars on 11/4/07

(Watch in High Quality!) In honor of Amtrak's birthday today, I thought it would be neat to upload some of my older footage from a couple years ago. This video features Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr making its station stop at Ottumwa, Iowa, on November 4th, 2007. Leading the train is Genesis #8, which, 26 days later, was pulling Amtrak's Pere Marquette train into Chicago, when it rear-ended a Norfolk Southern freight train on November 30th, 2007, totalling the unit. This may be the last known footage ever shot of this engine in operating condition. The Zephyr was also pulling seven extra GrandLuxe (ex-American Orient Express) passenger cars as part of the "GrandLuxe Limited" service, an attempt to add luxury-service trains to existing Amtrak trains. As you probably know it wasn't a success, and, in fact, GrandLuxe shut down just months later. So while I didn't know it at the time, I really captured history in the making.